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Human brain: The core unit of the central nervous system in our species. ^[e]

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Parent topics

• Nervous system [r]: The control unit of bodily functions in animals. ^[e]
• Central nervous system [r]: The main information-processing organs of the nervous system, consisting of the brain, spinal cord, and meninges. ^[e]
• Brain [r]: The core unit of a central nervous system. ^[e]
• Mammalian brain [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Primate brain [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Human [r]: Bipedal mammalian species native to most continents and sharing a common ape ancestor with chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans; notable for evolving language and adapting its habitat to its own needs. ^[e]
• Human anatomy [r]: The study of shapes and structures of and within the human body. ^[e]
• Human evolution [r]: The study of the physical and behavioral genetic adaptations of the species belonging to the subfamily hominidae. ^[e]

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• Brain disorder [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

• Neurology [r]: The medical specialty concerned with evaluating the nervous system and the other system that it affects, and the treatment of nervous system disorders. ^[e]
• Psychiatry [r]: The subfield of health sciences concerned with mental disorders. ^[e]
• Psychology [r]: The study of systemic properties of the brain and their relation to behaviour. ^[e]

• Mind [r]: The set of structures and activity states in the brain, body, and environment of a human that enable the physiological activities of thinking and conscious experiencing. ^[e]

• Brain evolution [r]: The process by which the central nervous system changed over many generations. ^[e]
• Brain development [r]: The build-up of the brain from ectodermal cells to a complex structure of neurons, glia and blood vessels. ^[e]
• Brain size [r]: Umbrella term for various measures of how big a brain is. ^[e]
• Brain atlas [r]: A reference work in which brain structures are placed in a coordinate system that is standardized for a given species or developmental stage. ^[e]
• Brain morphometry [r]: The quantitative study of structures in the brain, their differences between individuals, correlations with brain function, and changes of these characteristics over time. ^[e]

• Speech [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Speech (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
• Music [r]: The art of structuring time by combining sound and silence into rhythm, harmonies and melodies. ^[e]